Haggai 2:23

He encourages the people to the work, by promise of greater glory to the second temple than was in the first.

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In the type of holy things and unclean he shews their sins hindered the work.

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God's promise to Zerubbabel.

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Haggai 2:23(King James Version)In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.

O Zerubbabel

It seems evident that the Messiah is here described under the name of Zerubbabel, as elsewhere under that of David, whose kingdom, after these mighty convulsions, should supersede all others.